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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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